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Product review: LogLogic LX

LOG MANAGEMENT LogLogic's LX REVIEWED BY PHORAM MEHTA LogLogic Price: Starts at $50,000 Although device logs can contain a wide variety of information, little attention was given to the review and management of these logs until regulations like SOX, HIPAA and PCI made it mandatory. Now companies are finding there is far more to gain from reviewing and auditing logs than just compliance. LogLogic offers enterprise-class appliances for analyzing and archiving log data that enable organizations to achieve compliance, while offering decision support and improved availability. We reviewed the LX 2010, one of the LX family of appliances for real-time log data collection and analysis. (The ST series interfaces with NAS and WORM devices for mass storage.) Installation/Setup B+ LX 2010 is a beast of an appliance with a 2 TB RAW (1 TB in RAID 10) storage capacity, dual 2.4 AMD Opteron processors and 4 GB of memory. The setup is as simple as it gets, supported by a hardened Linux kernel, MySQL database, Apache Web server and Java. The ...

Novell's ZENworks Endpoint Security Management 3.5 is evaluated on its configuration and management, policy control and reporting capabilities. It offers the ability to control applications, protocols and removable storage devices. It also delivers encryption to files and folders, and network access control to ensure protection levels are current.

Workshare's Workshare Professional is a document lifecycle management platform that allows an organization to control where documents are sent, manages changes and provides audit capabilities. It also integrates with Microsoft Office 2007 but is tied to specific email platforms.